so look… I wrote this beautiful ass story and a gang of amazing people helped me bring this shit to life so enjoy 🎈
‘LOW INCOME BROWSING’ AVAILABLE ON ALL PLATFORMS.
big special thanks to @SHAMONEYXL we did it big bro 🤘🏽
https://t.co/SyC6w4iDUl
As we observe Black Music Month, this 1958 Jet cover reflects a part of my mother’s public life that is sometimes overlooked. Her voice and artistry were part of the freedom movement, and music was one of the ways she contributed to the struggle for justice.
Her artistry and her activism were never separate.
#CorettaScottKing #BlackMusicMonth #JetMagazine #JetBeauty #MLK
“I gotta dig deeper. I gotta get back to the basics.” 🎭
Denzel Washington shared how Viola Davis' performance in FENCES reawakened his love and understanding of acting in film.
The Obama Presidential Center opens to the general public on Juneteenth after a celebratory dedication in Chicago with dignitaries. The roughly $850 million project covers both the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president.
Keith David gets emotional and says he’s “living his dream” while accepting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
“I started out as a singer, then I wanted to be a preacher, and I wanted to be a lawyer and a bank president. Then I discovered I could be an actor and be all those things.”
https://t.co/3ZYYSgVgW6
As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.
What began as a love letter to Chicago’s South Side became one of the most important Black stories ever told on television.
For years, The Chi gave us community, conversation, heartbreak, healing, joy, and characters that felt like family. It made Chicago feel like home while spotlighting the beauty, complexity, and humanity of life with care and intention.
Now, as the longest-running Black drama series in premium cable and streaming history, ESSENCE honors the legacy of a cultural institution that changed the landscape of storytelling forever.
This is their final curtain call, and serves as a standing ovation to the stories, performances, and cultural impact that made The Chi a defining force in television.
Featuring Lena Waithe, Luke James, Hannaha Hall, Birgundi Baker, Jacob Latimore, and Jason Weaver, this moment is both a celebration and a thank you. To the cast. To the city. To the culture.
Some stories entertain us.
The Chi became a part of us.
Read more of our digital cover story at https://t.co/HJqw0uhsKU
EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV is developing ‘American Comfort’ (working title), a soul food restaurant comedy from black-ish creator Kenya Barris, Oprah Winfrey and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Deadline has learned.
Oscar and Emmy nominee Danielle Brooks is set to star and executive produce in the project, inspired by the life story of restaurateur Melba Wilson, which landed at Apple TV in a competitive situation, we hear.
More details here: https://t.co/jOs7qesPPl
Christopher Nolan says movie theaters will be around forever 🍿
"Theaters are part of history, and they’re part of the future as well"
"When you watch a comedy in a room full of laughing people ... a tragedy where everybody’s sad at the same time... that’s very, very important and very unique to cinema"
"The idea of the movie as a communal experience, as a place where we come together to experience a story, I’m fully confident that that’s a part of our culture forever"
(via @60Minutes)
Sterling K. Brown talks about why he chose to be part of the film “Is God Is”
“So there’s the macro and the micro. I love Black women, and I love seeing Black women win, right? I thought this was an incredibly creative script, something different and new, and I think that we, as a community, have been asking for creative and new stories, right? And I feel like the more diverse the landscape of stories are that we get to tell, the more people will stop putting us into a box in terms of what a Black movie is, what a Black story is. We are everything, and so the opportunity to do everything is something that excites me. Aleshea (Harris) wrote a play, then she adapted the play, and she directed the play, and I think she did so brilliantly. I also love the idea that Black women get a chance to be messy in this film, like hella messy. I feel like oftentimes we’re asked, in many stories, to be voices of reason. Sort of the sensible side component of a larger story, and that’s not the case in this. That is exciting to me.”
🔗 https://t.co/JNAWUWLa9O
The director of "Is God Is", Aleshea Harris, spoke about the message she wants to leave with the film
“I hope it is a reminder that anything is possible in narrative; that it is a reminder that all Black folks — especially, and including, Black women — belong in any kind of story. There are no limits to what we can do.
I also hope that it holds the door open for the other weird — I consider myself a weirdo — other people who have a weird, quirky thing that we haven't quite seen before; the other people who are ambitious and playing with tone in some of the ways that I did.
I hope that they can point to Is God Is and be like, ‘See? That was the thing that hopefully worked,’ you know?”